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Cracking the wise

Mamet’s Romance with ART; ASP’s Much Ado About Nothing
I don’t know that David Mamet’s is a fine Romance , and it certainly doesn’t conjure love at first scene.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 20, 2009
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Bard in the USA

Next season's greetings from the American Repertory Theatre
"You know," Paulus observes, "we are the American Repertory Theatre, and we haven't spent a lot of time in the repertoire on American drama."
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 15, 2009
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Endgame at the ART

Death duties
"They give mirth astride of a grave," Beckett might just as well have written of Mankind. He did opine, in Endgame , that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 27, 2009

Play by Play: February 6, 2009

Plays A through Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 09, 2009
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Review: The Seagull, The Corn Is Green

Tons of love
The Seagull begins with a theatrical experiment — a brief symbolist drama dreamed by young Konstantin Treplev, who's struggling toward artistic expression while endeavoring to showcase his girlfriend and impress his actress mother.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 20, 2009
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Regifting

Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2008
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Undiscovered country

New Rep’s Eurydice, the ART’s Let Me Down Easy, SpeakEasy’s The Light in the Piazza
A young woman steps off the Elevator Styx into a Hades ruled by Pee-wee Herman.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 24, 2008
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New blood

ART and the Huntington (and Boston theater) get a youth transfusion
The famously adventurous American Repertory Theatre is soon to be taken over by a woman who spent her summer directing . . . the vintage Broadway hits Kiss Me, Kate and Hair ?
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 10, 2008
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Fall on the boards

From A Chorus Line to Tennessee Williams and the Grinch
There are tours to the former Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Iraq, the Aran Islands, and even the Underworld on area stages this fall.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 11, 2008
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Channeling Shakespeare

Cardenio  at the ART; King John at ASP
Cardenio , an early-17th-century play in which Shakespeare may well have had a hand, has been MIA since its debut and will doubtless remain so.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 19, 2008
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Unkindest cuts

Julius Caesar  at the ART; The Scene at Lyric Stage
Those who went to high school in the 1960s may feel a wave of déjà vu at the American Repertory Theatre’s Julius Caesar .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 19, 2008
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War games

The Huntington’s  Third ; the ART’s Copenhagen ; ASP’s Henry V
Wendy Wasserstein might have chosen a lesser light in whose shadow to cast a play than King Lear .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 16, 2008
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From ma’am, with love

No Child . . .  at the ART, plus This Wonderful Life and White Christmas
Nilaja Sun could have caved to expectation.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 09, 2007
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Stage worthies

Fall on the Boston boards
The roar of the greasepaint precedes that of the autumn wind this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 12, 2007
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Master-servant/Master-mistress

Figaro at the ART; The English Channel at Suffolk
Figaro and Count Almaviva are holed up in a sacked mansion opposite the Bastille.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 12, 2007
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Don ho!

On the road with Mozart and Molière in Don Juan Giovanni
In 1665, when it made a brief appearance before being suppressed for a couple of hundred years, Molière’s Don Juan was a “machine play.”
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 04, 2007
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Wily Scot

Billy Connolly slays 'em at the Loeb
When Billy Connolly checked the time after nearly two hours of performance and said, “I could go on for days,” he was met with cheers and applause.
By JON GARELICK  |  June 19, 2007
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Dead men walking

ART ventures into No Man’s Land ; SpeakEasy stages a Parade
Hamlet’s “undiscovered country” is the subject of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 22, 2007
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Cross-purposes

ART’s Oliver Twist , the New Rep’s Orson’s Shadow
Oliver Twist gets the Brecht treatment in Neil Bartlett’s new adaptation at American Repertory Theatre.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  March 01, 2007
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Tyrants’ tales

American Repertory Theatre’s Britannicus, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s The Winter’s Tale
According to legend, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 30, 2007
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A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  December 28, 2006
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Flights of angels

Wings of Desire takes the stage
In Wim Wenders’s iconic 1987 film Wings of Desire , the Berlin Wall is a character. In Ola Mafaalani’s theatricalization of the work for Toneelgroep Amsterdam and the American Repertory Theatre, the Fourth Wall is.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 05, 2006
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Controlled chaos

The method to the Ex’s madness
It’s 11 am on a Thursday, and Andy Moor is having his first coffee just a few doors down from the American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Center, the site that will be home to one of his most ambitious projects yet. The Ex, "Weapons for El Salvador" (mp3)
By MATT ASHARE  |  December 05, 2006
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Harvard Square

Ground zero for so much, for so many
Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 15, 2006
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Groundbreakers

Radio Golf ; bobrauschenbergamerica ; I Am My Own Wife
As the Huntington Theatre Company mounts Radio Golf , the ghost in the rafters is that of Wilson, who died last October at 60, soon after completing this final piece of his grand project chronicling decade by decade the African-American experience of the last 100 years.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 20, 2006
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Heaven can wait

Monsieur Chopin at ART, Candy and Dorothy at Wellfleet
If Monsieur Chopin were to find itself in Tony contention, the score would do better than the book.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 27, 2006
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Re-entry

ART’s No Exit returns
There’s a pointed irony surrounding the return of the American Repertory Theatre’s No Exit : if Hell is other people, then why are all the actors so thrilled to be working together again?
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  June 14, 2006
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Poetry in motion

Love’s Labour’s Lost , Island of Slaves
The eyes have it in Love’s Labour’s Lost , in which ocular imagery duels with what Harold Bloom calls a “florabundance of language” in the arch arias of courtier Berowne, who sees himself writ large in the “pitch-ball” peepers of Rosaline.
By CARLOYN CLAY  |  May 28, 2006
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Love and death

Romeo and Juliet at the ART , Othello at Boston Theatre Works
Forget star-cross’d. At the American Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet are just plain cross.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 22, 2006
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Close companions

No Exit , Les Liaisons Dangereuses , and Little Women
The characters of Jean-Paul Sartre’s iconic 1944 one-act No Exit are in Hell.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 23, 2006

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